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by Darrell Anderson

Please comment, clarify, or improve. Thanks. https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/How_to_Build_TDE_Core_Modules#About_TQt and https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/How_to_Build_TDE_Core_Modules#Configure_and… ADD: ==== Although c++11 (and c++17) are supported in TDE, users compiling automake packages for systems with older versions of gcc might require explicitly declaring compatibility with '-std=c++11'. ============ https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/How_to_Build_TDE_Core_Modules#Other_Require… ADD: ==== Many TDE packages add features based on installing additional distro packages. For many people this approach is encouraged for a more robust desktop environment, but a good starting point is with a clean stock distro install and add supporting packages as needed. To avoid potential conflicts, compiling TDE probably is best done in an environment that does not contain any KDE related packages. ============ https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/How_to_Build_TDE_Core_Modules#Coexisting_wi… and https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Tips_And_Tricks#Look_and_feel ADD: ==== Some stand-alone Qt5 software (not necessarily KDE software) might not render toolbars, fonts, and colors correctly within TDE. Some users have found that installing the 'qt5ct' package helps improve the appearance of Qt5 software. While the qt5ct environment variable QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME can be exported globally to all users system-wide, a more suitable place to export the variable is $TDEHOME/env/qt5ct.sh. This limits the effects of qt5ct to each user and allows each user to customize the desired Qt5 features as desired. ============ https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/How_to_Build_TDE_Core_Modules#Build_Times DELETE the section.

10 months, 2 weeks

TDE and vintage computers

by Darrell Anderson

I would like to offer that with my efforts to build TDE on vintage systems, I built TDE R14.1.2 on Slackware 14.2 64-bit (gcc 5.5.0) and Slackware 14.1 32-bit (gcc 4.8.2). Both systems are EOL as of Dec. 2023. I did not build every package but core dependencies and packages built and run. I had to find some patches to back port. For example, some patches related to hotpluggable hwlib and ensuring '-std=c++11' is declared with tqt3. These days my brain is entrenched in old fart elderly territory and I have my days exhibiting grumpy old man traits. I have been out of the loop for many years with this kind of development and tend to lose patience easily. That said, that I have built the latest TDE on vintage systems is remarkable. Dare I say that the 14.1 builds are running on Pentium I/II single core systems with less than 512 MB of RAM and a 3.10.107 kernel? A tad slow? Yes, but everything functions and the slowness is mostly caused by PATA drives. I am impressed with the developers far more than a grumpy old man being able to build TDE on vintage systems. Good job devs. :)

10 months, 2 weeks

Re: TDE's Backstory and purpose

by Chris M

On Fri, 2024-05-17 at 11:19 -0500, Chris M wrote: > In regards to Nik's post about The Orgins of KDE: > > I am curious to know what's the backstory on TDE? > Why is KDE 3.5 being kept alive all of these years later? > And what is TDE's Purpose? > > I LOOOOOOOVED KDE 3.5 back in the day, but , I could never get KDE 3 > to work right on my machine, like making it see the CDROM etc. > But, when I found GNOME2 on Ubuntu 10.10 that became my home, then > Unity, and KDE 5 for a little while, TDE for about a week, and MATE > for the longest. And now im back to trying TDE. > The reason that I asked this question yesterday, is because, I LOVED KDE 3, but i'm scared to run TDE. I've been reading on Reddit about TDE and read about how NO Linux distro will carry TDE because its a liability due to some kind of " Internet Stacks" still using KDE 3 code, and how unsafe it is, and how running TDE would be like connecting a Windows 98 PC to the internet without a firewall etc. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------- > Thanks, > Chris > > OFF LIST: CM030(a)YAHOO.COM > > * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram* > > * LMDE 6 "Faye"*~~~* TDE Desktop ( TRINITY ) instead of > Cinnamon*~~~* > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Thanks, Chris OFF LIST: CM030(a)YAHOO.COM * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram* * LMDE 6 "Faye"*~~~* TDE Desktop ( TRINITY ) instead of Cinnamon*~~~*

10 months, 2 weeks

Password Manager constantly asking for password at launch.

by Chris M

I am just curious, is KMAIL supposed to pop up the KWALLET app asking for the password everytime I launch KMAIL? If not, its kinda annoying, how do I fix it? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Chris OFF LIST: CM030(a)YAHOO.COM * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram* ~~* Q4OS Trinity Edition* ~~

10 months, 2 weeks

origin of kdesktop ...

by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp

Hi all! Does anybody remember why KDE introduced the "kdesktop" window and did not use the X11 root windows for it's job? I just noticed that this "kdesktop" is (again) on front of the conky window and I was unpleasently remembered of that strange decision from ages ago. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

10 months, 2 weeks

KMAIL Rookie Mistake.

by Chris M

Not knowing anything about KMAIL, I *MIGHT OF* not sure, left kmail open while backing up the .trinity/share/apps/kmail/mail folder. I know that nothing was running when I did the backup. I had KMAIL set to work offline. Do you think everything will be okay? I know KMAIL stores emails as separate files vs in a .mbox file. I just got done importing everything over from Evolution. I might make another backup again, just to be sure. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Chris OFF LIST: CM030(a)YAHOO.COM * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram* ~~* Q4OS Trinity Edition* ~~

10 months, 2 weeks

Speaking of flatpak

by dep

Something about flatpak seems a little hinky to me -- Ubuntu is getting too heavily into data collection lately, and flatpak seems part of it, though I haven't researched it fully; too much to do and Ubuntu avoidance is easy. Best I can tell, appimage is a little more pristine, at least for now. Which is fortunate -- just found and installed the appimage for IPTVnator, which is likeHypnotix but written in electron. Appimage was a good way to try it out. When I liked it I d/led the .deb which, mirabile dictu, installed uneventfully (so I can now watch Iran TV about the helicopter crash there that seems to have killed high government officials there today; I need a Farsi mental appimage to understand it, though). Here, if it's of interest to anyone: https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/releases To populate it: https://iptv-org.github.io/iptv/index.m3u Of course if you get an appimage you need to set it as executable in its properties before you can run it. As I said, it seems ceteris paribus better than flatpak, though I could be wrong. dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

10 months, 2 weeks

EVO to KMAIL

by c. marlow

Hello Friends! It has been a very long time since I have tried TDE and decided to try it again, since I saw that a new version has came out. I am wondering, how do I import my mail from EVOLUTION that I used in The MATE Desktop to KMAIL in TDE? I also accidentally opened KMAIL and added this folder set that I will not use due to it saving emails in the .mbx format. I'd rather keep them in the same format that EVO uses, which I believe is MH Format? Isn't that what KMAIL uses? How do I delete that set of " LOCAL FOLDERS" as seen here?: https://imgur.com/a/y3IKeBO Thanks, Chris OFF LIST: CM030(a)YAHOO.COM

10 months, 2 weeks

Build requirements

by Darrell Anderson

Where in the wiki are the expected build environment requirements listed (and not out of date)? I'm am trying to build TDE 14.1.2 on Slackware 15.0 32-bit. Fails to build because of a "Value too large for defined data type" error. This seems to be a specific 32-bit error. I have not read anything that 32-bit no longer is supported in TDE. I'm trying to build 14.1.2 on some vintage 32-bit systems. The tqt3 build fails with many errors and fatal errors. Cmake version 3.5.2 is installed but tqt3 does not use cmake. While vintage systems are EOL, R14.0.12 built fine on these systems. So something else has changed or was introduced since them. Thanks.

10 months, 3 weeks

Packages for new graphics styles have been updated in R14.1.2

by Slávek Banko

Hi all, for those who are not subscribed to tde-announcements, you might be interested in information about update of packages for new graphics styles in R14.1.2: https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/announcements@trin… Cheers Slávek --

10 months, 3 weeks

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